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Reflections - Ember - Apr 20 2021 His flight was still unsteady. Clumsy, even. He rarely flew; he felt uncertain with it, a leaf trembling on each breeze of the wind. Almost always, Ember remained groundbound, pacing along with that slow and steady plod. White wings flapped twice, and he lowered himself (with relief) to the rock, and paused to look around. The stone of Pisces glittered with moisture. The moss looked wet, and though the whole place was cold, it was beautiful. And it was cold; he drew his magicka around him like a cloak, faint warmth emanating from him. Ember folded his wings more carefully against his back, and then made his way toward the centerpiece of the vast cave: the waterfall that roared into the lagoon below, its spray glittering in the light like tiny diamonds. It fascinated him at once, each glint and shine sparking reflections in his already brightly-glowing eyes. He was silent as he made his way slowly, carefully, to the edge of the lagoon. And once there he leaned over, half-grown, goofily disproportionate face staring in with rapt solemnity. What lay beneath, in the cold, clear depths-? It was beautiful, he thought; whatever lay within must certainly be so, too. @Indigo RE: Reflections - Indigo - Apr 21 2021
@Ember RE: Reflections - Ember - Apr 21 2021 Ember had expected--maybe--fish. Pretty fish, certainly; but... fish. He hadn't known that anyone lived in Pisces' lagoon, bar Mister Tenzin (who Pride had told him a little about). He certainly didn't expect a sudden face slipping up from the cold beneath, or for said face to suddenly start speaking. Hackles and spines flicked half-up, alarmed but not fully aggressive, as he scrambled a couple feet back on wet rock. Then he calmed--as he realized Indigo wasn't hostile; as she spoke. He didn't think to apologize to her for being startled. He just blinked a little, and then leaned forward, ears pricking up as he sniffed at her instinctively. At her advice he dutifully shuffled that single step back again, so there were a polite couple feet between them--and so he wasn't teetering at the water's edge. "You are--friendly?" he asked, blinking, his words coming slow. Then he stopped, looking down at his oversized paw-dragon-feet. "I don't think I would be good at swimming. No," he decided in agreement. "But--I've never tried?" Indigo didn't offer a name, nor ask his own, and he didn't think to do the same in turn. Instead he simply answered her question, thinking about it first, so that it seemed a long pause as he lowered himself to hefty haunches. "I'm... exploring. And I want to learn," he added, quietly. Emberglow eyes shifted to the surface of the lagoon, ranging over it, before pulling back to the strange and magical creature before him. "Are there more of you?" he asked, voice curious and soft. @Indigo RE: Reflections - Indigo - Apr 28 2021
@Ember RE: Reflections - Ember - Apr 29 2021 Indigo's reassurance that she would not eat him was somehow... not as reassuring as he'd hoped. Information churned slowly through his mind, and sort of made itself into a bundle that eventually spat back out through his mouth. His thought process was... methodical. "Dad says we shouldn't... eat those that can talk," he told her. In fairness, he was still a child, mostly; the things he blurted (if with measured tone) were half-related at the best of times to the conversation at hand. But! Perhaps it would be useful information. Somehow. Ember looked down into the water, as Indigo went on. The other ones down there don't really talk, she was saying, and he wondered about that. About small things, underwater. Did she mean fish? Or something else entirely? And what had he seen..? He leaned back on his haunches, expression going distant, wing-limbs settling his weight down. He thought back. He'd seen Orion, of course. Eridanus. He'd seen Polaris, briefly; Pride had taken him there to practice. He'd seen Tunnel J, and a few of the other tunnels, but he'd not ventured far into Monoceros. It occurred to him, belatedly, to wonder what Indigo meant by 'above the surface.' After hesitation he assumed she meant the water (maybe?) and so he answered with this in mind, and with a little curiosity for inspiration. "I've seen... a few places? I'll tell you about them, if you tell me about... what's underwater?" he offered, a tenative and hopeful suggestion. He liked stories. "Oh... my name is Ember," he added, quietly, realizing belatedly that he hadn't introduced himself. Then, with childlike simplicity, he asked "What's yours?" @Indigo |